Your Ad Could Go Here, Oksana Zabuzhko
Your Ad Could Go Here, Oksana Zabuzhko
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Your Ad Could Go Here
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Author: Oksana Zabuzhko, Nina Shevchuk-Murray, Halyna Hryn, Askold Melnyczuk, Nina Shevchuk-Murray, Marco Carynnyk, Marta Horban

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Unabridged: 10 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/28/2020

Synopsis

Oksana Zabuzhko, author of “the most influential Ukrainian book in the fifteen years since independence,” Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex, returns with a gripping short story collection.Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine’s leading public intellectual, is called upon to make sense of the unthinkable reality of our times. In this breathtaking short story collection, she turns the concept of truth over in her hands like a beautifully crafted pair of gloves. From the triumph of the Orange Revolution, which marked the start of the twenty-first century, to domestic victories in matchmaking, sibling rivalry, and even tennis, Zabuzhko manages to shock the reader by juxtaposing things as they are—inarguable, visible to the naked eye—with how things could be, weaving myth and fairy tale into pivotal moments just as we weave a satisfying narrative arc into our own personal mythologies.At once intimate and worldly, these stories resonate with Zabuzhko’s irreverent and prescient voice, echoing long after reading.

About Oksana Zabuzhko

Oksana Zabuzhko is one of Ukraine’s most celebrated contemporary writers and the author of more than twenty books. She graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Kiev’s Shevchenko University and obtained her PhD in philosophy of arts. Since publishing her influential novel Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex (1996, published in 2011 in English translation by Halyna Hryn), she has been working as a freelance author.Zabuzhko lives in Kiev, where she and her partner, artist Rostyslav Luzhetskyy, operate a small publishing house.Zabuzhko’s books have been translated into fifteen languages. Among her numerous acknowledgments are a MacArthur Grant (2002), the Antonovych International Foundation Prize (2008), the Order of Princess Olga (2009), and the Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2019). Her magnum opus, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets (2010, published in 2012 in English translation by Nina Murray), won the Angelus Central European Literary Prize (2013) for the best novel of Eastern and Central Europe.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stitching on November 29, 2023

It took me forever to actually get into this one. You know that feeling when you read something by an author and the next thing you read by them has the audacity to not be the same thing, yeah that's what happened to me with this one, it needed space from Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex to be enjoyed for......more

Goodreads review by Kate on July 20, 2020

Do you like to read short stories? I have definitely starting enjoying them more lately, and I’ve really been enjoying reading out of my usual genre bubble, and exploring different cultures and voices.⁣ ⁣ YOUR AD COULD GO HERE is a collection of stories unlike anything I’ve ever read. The stories span......more

Goodreads review by Meg - A Bookish Affair on June 17, 2020

3.5 stars. "Your Ad Could Go Here" is a collection of short stories by Ukrainian author, Oksana Zabuzhko. In this book, she explores everything from siblings, to what it means to be a woman, to the political turmoil of her home country. I had a chance to visit Ukraine in 2011 and it holds a special......more

Goodreads review by Liv on May 13, 2020

Your Ad Could Go Here is the first book I've read by a Ukrainian author and it was interesting to say the least. This book is a series of short stories that all appear to have moral messages, critiques of society and many of them appear to have almost magical realism elements to them as the line bet......more

Goodreads review by Lolly K Dandeneau on March 19, 2020

via my blog: [URL not allowed] “Every fear has its volume and weight…” The women and girls in this collection of stories face hardships that are common to all women the world over and other tragedies that test their courage beyond boundaries some of us will never know. War is brut......more

Quotes

“Themes of fear, desire, and national camaraderie flow through Ukrainian author and philosopher Zabuzhko’s (The Museum of Abandoned Secrets, 2012, etc.) eight fiery tales. Zabuzhko has been recognized internationally for her irreverent voice and, even within the first few pages of this collection, one can see why…Evocative stories about the way national issues impact even the most personal aspects of life.” —Kirkus Reviews“Objective truth and personal mythologies collide in Zabuzhko’s short story collection, which centers on the question of just what truth is in this contemporary moment. She takes readers on a journey from the triumph of the Orange Revolution to domestic victories in matchmaking and sibling rivalry, challenging us to think about how things could be by incorporating elements of myth and fairytale in these breathtaking stories.” —PEN America“At once intimate and worldly, these stories resonate with Zabuzhko’s irreverent and prescient voice, echoing long after reading.” —Midwest Book Review

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